Was just going to post the same, this seems great for rolling analytics on software or VMs, as a backing for monitoring infrastructure and pairing with Grafana.

However for IoT or hardware time series I’m left with a few questions... A few things it seems are not possible:

- An IoT device with limited network connection that batches data points while offline

- manually loading time series data from disk at a later date on an offline device such as a weather station

- loading data “in the future” (data points with bad/erratic timestamps, memoized predictions)

I guess the hardware / IoT use case is pretty small compared to infrastructure monitoring, where Timestream’s design choices make a lot of sense.